Review and Herald Publishing Association

Review and Herald Publishing Association
Private
Industry Publishing
Genre Religious
Founded Rocky Hill, Connecticut (1849 (1849))
Founder James White
Headquarters Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
Area served
World
Key people
Mark B. Thomas, President
Products Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs, Tracts
Number of employees
175 (2011)
Website www.reviewandherald.com

The Review and Herald Publishing Association was one of two major Seventh-day Adventist publishing houses in North America and was the oldest institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The organization published books, magazines, study guides, CDs, videos and games for Adventist churches, schools and individual subscribers. It also printed and distributed the Adventist Review magazine. In 2014 the Review and Herald Publishing Association was absorbed by its sister publisher, Pacific Press Publishing Association. The Maryland publishing house closed and some of its personnel and assets relocated to PPPA, in Nampa, Idaho.

History

The roots of the Review and Herald Publishing Association go back to 1849 when James White produced The Present Truth and, in 1850, The Advent Review. From there the publication house grew and moved to Battle Creek, Michigan.

A set of 10 blue books
The current edition of The Bible Story set

A major fire on December 30, 1902 destroyed the offices. The headquarters was then moved to Takoma Park, Maryland. In the 1950s, the association developed The Bible Story by Arthur S. Maxwell. The set was notable for its size—including 411 stories from the Bible—and for having color illustrations on each page opening—an extravagant expense for a book publisher at that time.

In 1983 the organization moved to Hagerstown, Maryland onto a 127-acre (0.51 km2) campus and employs approximately 100 people.

Edson White established the Gospel Herald Publishing Company in Nashville, Tennessee, which was renamed to Southern Publishing Association in 1901. It merged with the Review and Herald in 1980.[1]


See also

References

  1. Our History: A Short History of the Review and Herald. Accessed 2007-12-12


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